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The weather service confirmed an EF-0 tornado with winds up to 80 mph on Thursday in Monongalia County. The tornado went a few hundred yards before dissipating. No one was injured. Mostly snapped and uprooted hardwood trees were noted from the survey along Sierra Farm Road west to Gallus Road. According the the NWS report, The last observed tornado in Monongalia County was July of 2008 when a EF1 tornado moved across the southern part of the county. This is the seventh reported tornado to affect Monongalia County and sixth EF0 tornado since 1950.

In Dunbar Township, a weak tornado moved across parts of Ladys Lane onto Airway Inn Road. Over 80 trees were downed and uprooted due to the strong winds. Two trees fell onto a house on Ladys Lane. The last reported tornado in Fayette county was on July 30, 2008 in the extreme southeastern part of the county, the NWS said.

The storm in Berkeley Springs and Martinsburg did not produce a tornado. Instead, trees were knocked down by a microburst with straight-line winds of up to 70 mph.